I use Vonage as well (Motorola) and got best results by:
Internet
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CableModem
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MonoWall
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Motorola -- Telephones
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Computers
And set up the Motorola to be in "bridged" mode, assigned it a static IP
(192.168.1.2) and set up two forward rules (UDP 5061 and UDP 10000-10011) to
its IP.
Now I can go like mad with downloading and all, keep the Vonage quality at
"best" (90 kbps) and never had a single problem talking while using
bandwidth sucking peer-to-peer applications.
When I tried traffic shaping, I noticed it increased the lag a bit (added
like 100ms at times) and cut down available bandwidth a little too. I also
got weird echoes and such sometimes and so to make it work fairly well, I
switched it to "lowest" quality (30 kbps) which did better.
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Jason J Ellingson
Technical Consultant
615.301.1682 : nashville
612.605.1132 : minneapolis
www.ellingson.com
jason at ellingson dot com
-----Original Message-----
From: James W. McKeand [mailto:james at mckeand dot biz]
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 4:33 PM
To: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
Subject: RE: [m0n0wall] Traffic Shaping for VoIP
I tried for a while, it did not seem to affect my call quality in any
way, so I ended up turning it off. I use Vonage with a Cisco ATA 186.
I created one Pipe:
192 Kbit/s (~75% of reported upstream bandwidth - Labeled: "UpStream
Bandwidth")
I created two Queues:
one with a weight of 2 (Labeled: "High Priority UpStream")
one with a weight of 1 (Labeled: "Low Priority UpStream")
I created two Rules:
Target: Queue 1 (High Priority UpStream)
Interface: WAN
Protocol: any
Source: <IP of ATA>
Source port range from: any
Destination: any
Destination port range from: any
Direction: out
{all other settings are default}
Description: VoIP -> Any
Target: Queue 1 (Low Priority UpStream)
Interface: WAN
Protocol: any
Source: NOT <IP of ATA>
Source port range from: any
Destination: any
Destination port range from: any
Direction: out
{all other settings are default}
Description: !VoIP -> Any
Hope this helps - I am doing something wrong someone let me know...
_________________________________
James W. McKeand
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Brunk [mailto:jbrunk at wthosting dot com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 5:01 PM
To: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
Subject: RE: [m0n0wall] Traffic Shaping for VoIP
I would also be very interested in this as I currently use vonage at
home
and would love to prioritize it.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Chilton [mailto:ian at ichilton dot co dot uk]
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 4:47 PM
To: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
Subject: [m0n0wall] Traffic Shaping for VoIP
Hi,
I want to make voip connections the highest priority traffic on my
internet
connection - does anyone have any experience of doing this with
m0n0wall?
How well does it work?
What rules did you use?
I want to be able to use SIP and IAX2?
Thanks
--ian
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